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No U.S. Intervention in Colombia! No more
Vietnam wars!
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The International Action Center
will hold a demonstration at the Colombian Mission to the United Nations
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140 E. 57th St. in New York
City at 5:00 pm on October 12, 1999 to protest the dangerous new escalation
of U.S. military intervention in Colombia.
“The United States government
is at war with the Colombia people,” said IAC spokesperson Teresa Gutierrez.
“Colombia is now the thir larges recipient of U.S. military aid in the
world.”
The U.S. government is considering
a vast increase of up to $1.5 billion for the Colombian government, mostly
military. Colombia received $290 million this year.
In addition to military aid,
the Pentagon has already sent troops to Colombia. “U.S. Special Forces
are already on the ground in Colombia training counterinsurgency battalions,”
Gutierrez charged. “White House diplomats are preparing the grounds for
a “regional intervention force,” drawing in othe Latin American countries
in Colombia’s civil war.”
“This military aid is disguised
as part of the “war drugs,”” Gutierrez explained. “But Colombia’s biggest
drug traffickers—the landlords, the paramilitary death squads and their
allies in the military high command—are the ones benefiting from the huge
infusion of U.S. cash and hardware. Huge U.S. banks get rich from billions
of dollars in drug profits.”
The International Action
Center, founded in 1992 by former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, is one
of the foremost anti-war organizations in the United States. It has organized
demonstrations of tens of thousands against U.S. wars and intervention
in Iraq, Cuba, Yugoslavia, Somalia, Haiti, and others.
“We aren’t waiting for the
Pentagon to turn Colombia in the grounds for the next Vietnam War,” said
IAC co-director Sara Flounders “It’s time for anti-war activists and all
progressive people in the United States to resist the Pentagon’s drive
to war.”
“The people of the United
States have nothing to gain b being drawn in to the U.S. and Colombian
governments’ war against Colomba's’ working people,” Flounders said. “The
billions of dollars sent to the deat squad regime in Bogota could be used
in New York City for jobs, housing, drug treatment, or health care.”
For Immediate Release
Attention Assignment Editor Press Contact: Teresa Gutierrez, Monica Somocurcio
212-633-6646 October 7, 1999 DEMONSTRATION AGAINST U.S. INTERVENTION IN
COLOMB8A Tuesday, October 12 5 pm Colombian Mission to the UN 140 E. 57th
St., NYC
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